{"id":6213,"date":"2010-06-13T21:38:18","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T02:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=6213"},"modified":"2010-06-13T21:39:51","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T02:39:51","slug":"teaching_childr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/13\/teaching_childr\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching children the joy of sox … using Bhangra"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is from a Canadian-American TV show called The Backyardigans<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n

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The show is an animated musical-adventure series aimed at children between the ages of 2 and 5.[4] In each episode, the show’s five friends–Pablo, Tyrone, Uniqua, Tasha, and Austin–rely on their vivid imaginations to transform their backyard into completely different worlds, in which they go through many sorts of stories and adventures…The episodes focus on music and dancing as much as they do on the stories, with each one featuring a different music genre [Link<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

The Bhangra episode<\/a> had three other songs (Socks, Wonderful Socks<\/a>, That’s My Job, That’s My Job<\/a>, and Gotta Get the Pencil<\/a>) but this is the best one.<\/p>\n\n

It doesn’t really make much sense to me, but then I don’t think that shows intended to amuse kids under five should really make sense to adults. Either you like it or you don’t, but trying to understand it … begs the point. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is from a Canadian-American TV show called The Backyardigans: The show is an animated musical-adventure series aimed at children between the ages of 2 and 5.[4] In each episode, the show’s five friends–Pablo, Tyrone, Uniqua, Tasha, and Austin–rely on … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6213"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}